How to Live in a City

Series: Metropolis - Creator or Destroyer Series

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1964

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the eternal, city-bound dilemma--everything so near, but where is there room to stretch? Examines the open-spaces dream to build a city with more living room. Questions whether the designers are making conformers out of the urbanites with their monotonous architectural designs., The space problems involved in city housing. The dream to build a city with more living space. Questions whether monotonous architectural designs are making conformists of city-dwellers.

Complete Record: Documents the eternal, city-bound dilemma--everything so near, but where is there room to stretch? Examines the open-spaces dream to build a city with more living room. Questions whether the designers are making conformers out of the urbanites with their monotonous architectural designs., This film analyzes the eternal city-bound paradox of convenience and congestion. New York City is used as an example of a metropolis where open spaces are needed to support the city's myriad functions. The program questions whether designers are encouraging conformity in city dwellers by constructing architecturally monotonous structures. , The space problems involved in city housing. The dream to build a city with more living space. Questions whether monotonous architectural designs are making conformists of city-dwellers., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.